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11-letter words containing i, r, d, s

  • aru islands — a group of islands in Indonesia, in the SW Moluccas. Area: about 8500 sq km (3300 sq miles)
  • ascertained — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • aspidistras — Plural form of aspidistra.
  • asteroidean — an echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, comprising the starfishes.
  • audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
  • auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
  • auditorship — the position or function of auditor
  • autodialers — Plural form of autodialer.
  • autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
  • avoirdupois — a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton
  • bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
  • bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
  • banderillas — Plural form of banderilla.
  • barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
  • barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
  • basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
  • base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
  • basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • bastardised — Simple past tense and past participle of bastardise.
  • bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
  • bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
  • bedside rug — a rug beside a bed
  • behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
  • best friend — a dearest friend
  • bestridable — capable of being bestridden
  • bewhiskered — having whiskers on the cheeks
  • bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
  • bird spider — any large hairy predatory bird-eating spider of the family Aviculariidae, of tropical America
  • bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
  • bird's beak — beak (def 9).
  • bird's nest — the nest of a bird
  • bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
  • bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
  • birds' eggs — the eggs of birds
  • blind trust — A blind trust is a financial arrangement in which someone's investments are managed without the person knowing where the money is invested. Blind trusts are used especially by people such as members of parliament, so that they cannot be accused of using their position to make money unfairly.
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
  • bored stiff — very bored
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
  • bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
  • bromidrosis — the production of foul-smelling perspiration
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
  • c-odescript — (language)   A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
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